Inlay-lez-Lille

Inlay-lez-Lille is a common French, located in the department of the Northern and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Geography

Located at four kilometers in the north of Lille, in the plain of Flandres Frenchwomen, in full heart of the agglomeration of Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing.

The commune is served by the lines of bus 3,6,9 and 18 at the beginning of the station of Lille-Flandres, and also by the line 23.

Road S of access: the north-western by-pass D710 (left 10, " Inlay center"), RN 17 and in the east, the RD 949.

History

The common car its name of the Marque river which, in Marquette, joined Deule.

The Cistercian abbey of Inlays, community of women, was founded in 1226 by the Jeanne countess of Flanders called also Jeanne of Constantinople which was buried there in 1244. The abbey was destroyed by a fire during the war between the French Republic and the Austrian Empire in 1792. Sold like national good in 1793, its materials will be dispersed by the purchasers. The main door, ultimate vestige of the abbey, was destroyed in 1942. The site is currently in the course of excavations by a team of archéologues.
The blazon of the east city as follows: gold field, with the sand lion, armed and lampassé of mouth. It is enriched in oblique band by the name by the city: Inlay.

Administration

Economy

One will find the factory Decauville there where were manufactured the tip trucks of the same name as well as thousands of kilometers of way of 60 cm, which were used to transport the coal at the bottom of the mines of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and a little everywhere in France in the Forêt S and the Industrie S. the Chemical industry appears there with Kulhmann and Dekachimie in 1961.

But also the factories Massey-Fergusson (manufacture of tractors) which produced until 1982 for the whole world, and Large Mills of Paris (flour mill) whose factory built in 1920 will be closed in 1989.

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Town hall (1874 - Castle DEPRETZ where the town hall was installed on this site in 1930)

  • Music school (1848)
  • École Jules Ferry (1872 - now renovated in appendix of the Town hall)
  • Église Saint-Amand (1874)
  • Église Notre Dame de Lourdes (1930)
  • Vestiges of a Abbaye Cistercien created in 1228 where is the tomb of the Countess Jeanne of Flanders and of Constantinople.
(signature of the capitulation of the head office of Lille in 1708)
  • ex-Large Mills of Paris (1922): registered voters with the inventory of the Historic buildings, style néo-Flemish. Do not function any more since 1986.
  • Vault Saint-Roch (street Lalau)

Personalities related to the commune

  • Isabelle Aubret, singer, born in Lille, lived in Inlay-Lez-Lille up to 13 years.

Folklore and tradition

Like the majority of the cities of North, Marquette has its giant: Jeanne of Flanders, which traditionally left at the time of the festival of the capons. This festival, instituted in 1967, commemorates the distribution of the capons organized by the Jeanne countess of Flanders to XIIIe century in order to relieve misery and poverty.
At the time of this festival, in remembering the generous gesture of Jeanne, capons in cake are thrown on the crowd top of the Town hall. Every year the commune organizes at the time of halloween a great festival or they give a point of rendevous, all the world joined together to make it tower of the city to collect candies and at the end find yourself with the forest to burn the witch.

See too

External bonds

  • Site of the municipality
  • the history of Inlays

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